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American Civil War Gatling Gun
1,581 wordsDuring the American Civil War, which lasted from 1861 - 1865, over 620, 000 accounted soldiers were killed. Known as the "the first modern war", historians generally agree that the reason for this was because this was a time of transition for the military. Armies and Navies were still using tactics where they would gather large forces of firepower to bear on the enemy. At the same time, weapons were being developed which were accurate and lethal well beyond any arms of the earlier conflicts. As ...
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Industrial Goods White People
857 wordsThe extent to which the debate over slavery was not really about black people but about whites can be seen politically, socially, religiously and economically. Slavery affecting politics is demonstrated politically in the Lincoln-Douglas debates. The real arguments were over which side, the north or the south, would gain more power from slavery by making it either a slave state or a free state. Douglas argued that slaves were not equal to whites in any fashion and they should not be free, which ...
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Billy The Kid William H
1,039 wordsKid Antrim, aka Henry McCarty, aka William H. Bonney. Also know as Billy the Kid. Cold blooded killer, Outlaw, Robin Hood of the west, and Legend. Billy the Kid has been known as many things, but no matter what you believe about the others William H. Bonney is definable one of the most predominate legends of the wild wild west. When Billy the kid was a very young lad In old Silver City he went to the bad; Way out in the West with a gun in his hand At the age of twelve years he killed his first m...
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1,385 wordsCarl August Sandburg was born in Galesburg, Illinois on January 6, 1878. His parents, August and Clara Johnson, were immigrants from Sweden. After he encountered many August Johnsons in his job with the railroad, Carl's father decided to rename the family. The Sandburg's were poor and as a result, Carl had to quit school at the age of thirteen to drive a milk truck and deliver milk to help support the family. At seventeen, Carl Sandburg went to Kansas as a hobo. During the eight months that he s...
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Abolition Of Slavery Abraham Lincoln
496 wordsThe Civil War is acknowledged as the greatest war in American history. Known as "The War that Never Ended." Nearly three million fought, and 600, 000 died. It was the only war fought on American soil by Americans, and for that reason we have always been fascinated with The Civil War. On April 12, 1861, at 4: 30 AM, Confederates under General Pierre Beauregard opened fire upon Fort Sumter in Charleston, South Carolina with the use of 50 cannons. The Civil War began. The Civil War lasted 4 years, ...
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Freedom Of Religion Bill Of Rights
862 wordsWhat is America? A young girl in a distant land asked her mother this question in a whisper as they were hiding among produce and goods on the docks trying to find a way our of their county. A way out of their life of poverty, persecution and even death. Looking for a new life in a new world, America. Some Americans dont fell the meaning of this life, a life of freedom, a life of peace. To those in other countries like this family, it is something nearly impossible to reach, something only reach...
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Martin Luther King Puerto Rican
1,174 wordsLet me begin this essay by stating that I am a retired English teacher of 34 years experience and believe that I have treated all of my students fairly and equitably. Three times I had been named into Whos Who Among American Teachers and two of those nominations have been by minority students, one black and one Hispanic. Those students realized that my classroom standards were just as tough on them as they were on the majority Caucasian students and that I gave them no favoritism, slack or handi...
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A Summarization Of The American Civil War
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American Public School Holiday Crisis
1,612 words... lavish has now taken over as the dominant social / ethical philosophy in most of Europe and in Canada. Guess what country has been protecting and defending Europe and Canada for the last sixty years? If the secularists and revisionists have their way then the United States will eventually become militarily weak and morally bankrupt and will be compelled to join the ranks of France, Germany and Canada in an equal new world order. Just think about it. Where would the world be and what would th...
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End Of His Life Langston Hughes
1,971 wordsJames Mercer Langston Hughes was born in Joplin, Missouri, on February 1, 1902, to James Nathaniel Hughes, a lawyer and businessman, and Carrie Mercer (Langston) Hughes, a teacher. The couple separated shortly thereafter. James Hughes was, by his son's account, a cold man who hated blacks (and hated himself for being one), feeling that most of them deserved their ill fortune because of what he considered their ignorance and laziness. Langston's youthful visits to him there, although sometimes fo...
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How Did The North Win Civil War
506 wordsHow did the North win the civil war In 1860, anti-slavery Republican Abraham Lincoln won the presidential election. It became the last reason that destroyed thin links between the North and the South. Southerners decided to protect themselves from interference of Northerners; and they found the only way out to separate from the United States of America. Southerners established The Confederate States of America. Secession was viewed as an illegal act by Northerners. The fact caused the beginning ...
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Boys Dont Cry John And Tom Brandon
795 wordsBOYS DONT CRY Starring Hilary Swank as Teena Brandon. Directed by Kimberley Peirce. In 1993, Brandon Teena, a teenage drifter who was famous locally for romancing the females in Falls City, Nebraska, was found shot dead in a farmhouse just out of the town. But Brandon, despite his reputation with females, wasnt actually a man at all. He was Teena Brandon, a young woman who was gender-confused. She had managed to pass as a man with all her peers, her girlfriends, and her killers who had once cons...
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Carl Sandburg Pulitzer Prize
771 wordsAuthor-poet Carl Sandburg was born in the three-room cottage at 313 East Third Street in Galesburg on January 6, 1878. The modest house reflects the typical living conditions of a late nineteenth century working-class family. Many of the furnishings once belonged to the Sandburg family are still in tact. Behind the house stands a small wooded park. Underneath Remembrance Rock, lie the ashes of Carl Sandburg, who died in 1967. Carl August Sandburg was born the son of Swedish immigrants August and...
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American Civil War Harpers Ferry
953 wordsThe American Civil War The American Civil War was one of the most momentous and controversial events in American history. The South wanted to maintain its way of life. Although the war was not fought over slavery directly, many causes were connected to slavery in some way. The South was tired of abolitionists and northerners in general criticizing them. Bloody Kansas angered both sides and John Brown s raid on Harpers Ferry was the last straw for some Southerners. Southern aristocrats claimed th...
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Earths Magnetic Magnetic Field
1,778 wordsThe Role of Magnetic Stimuli in Animals In as early in the year 1855 Minddendorf proposed the idea of broad front, one-direction migration also suggested a means of orientation, that birds were capable of detecting the magnetic poles and of maintaining their bearing therefrom. Since then many similar ideas have continued to pop up at random intervals (Carthy 56). An immediate difficulty is the lack of any structure or tissue that could possibly react to the magnetic field. In the year 1948, the ...
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Affirmative Action Programs African Americans
1,179 wordsThe causes and consequences of the " Southern Strategy" as it relates to African-Americans and the American political system. Richard Nixon's " Southern Strategy" (or as the Nixon administration would call it " positive polarization" ) of the 1960 s was a political platform that provided the final push in transforming the " the party of Lincoln" into the political party greatly favored by the great grandsons of the old Confederacy. This strategy was aimed ...
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Causes Of The War North And South
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True Intentions General Sherman
2,454 wordsSherman s March In November of 1864, Major General William Tecumseh Sherman cut a 300 -mile long, 60 -mile wide corridor of destruction across the Confederate State of Georgia. He burned every thing in his path. He torched plantations, bridges, crops, factories, and mills. The goal of this war of attrition was to stop the heart of the Confederacy. By all accounts this campaign was very successful. Sherman s campaign raised many questions. First, what did Sherman think off his march? Did he see i...
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Blacks And Whites African Americans
1,535 wordsRACISM IN THE 1930 S: The Black Mans Struggle The 1930 s was a time of change for the blacks of the United States of America. However, this change was not all for the better. The main change for blacks during this period was that many of them migrated to the North, which in turn, caused many other situations, which included the election of President Roosevelt. This was a positive, as was the improvement from the de jure segregation, when laws allow segregation, of the South to the less harsh seg...
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Affirmative Action Programs African Americans
1,164 wordsThe causes and consequences of the Southern Strategy as it relates to African-Americans and the American political system. Richard Nixon's Southern Strategy (or as the Nixon administration would call it positive polarization) of the 1960 s was a political platform that provided the final push in transforming the the party of Lincoln into the political party greatly favored by the great grandsons of the old Confederacy. This strategy was aimed at getting support from the traditionally Democratic ...
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